the hunger for importance

Doesn't everyone want to matter to someone? Doesn't everyone want to be important to some cause or to some person or to something? I think that deep down, even though some may not want to admit it, there is a huge place that wants to be important. There is a deep, incessant, unforgiving hunger to matter. To a degree, it's healthy to want to matter. I would label someone as crazy if they absolutely had no desire to be something. The problem raises its head when that "want to" matter becomes a "need to" matter. People make huge life altering choices based solely on a false notion of being important. Thinking that maybe if I'll do this, then I'll matter to someone. Why? Why do so many people hunger for so much attention? The reasons are probably countless, but I believe the remedy is one thing. To need from anything here on the earth is a very scetchy situation. There is practically nothing here that is always the same. Everything is constantly changing. Relationships, bank accounts, governments, climate, property, worldviews, there isn't anything that's a sure bet every time. But I believe that the story is different with God.
You can look at the stories of those who've lived for Him throughout history, you'll find that God has always been a God who makes good on His promises. There is only one safe place to need from, that's God. Take a hard look at what it is you need so bad, and get with God about it. Let Him know that you want Him to be the only thing that you need. Believe that needing Him is okay, and that needing Him will not result in dissappointment, but that God will satisfy the hunger that burns inside you.

Honestly, my goal was not to preach here, but sometimes it seems overwhelming, the need to be important that is. Sometimes it feels as though if I don't matter somewhere here on earth, then I obviously don't matter anywhere. And even though I don't believe that, and believe strongly in storing up treasure in heaven, there is still very much a part of me that is connected to this life and it's ways, and needs to matter here. I know that I need to live my life in a way that matters to God, even if at times it may seem as though what I am doing matters no where here on earth. There will always, I hope, be a part of me that is reaching out for completion, for healing, for wholeness, I just pray that God gives me the strength and the wisdom to insure that my reach is not to the things of this world, but to Him.
Later